Nostitz family

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The House of Nostitz (Czech: Nostic) is an old and influential Silesian aristocratic family, whose members occupied many important positions within Holy Roman Empire and later in Austria, Bohemia, Germany and Russia.

History

The family was named after

• Franz Anton von Nostitz-Rieneck [de] (1725–1794), Bohemian nobleman and patron
• Friedrich Moritz, Graf von Nostitz-Rieneck (1728–1796), a field marshal in imperial service to the House of Habsburg
• Johann Nepomuk von Nostitz-Rieneck (1768–1840), nephew of Friedrich Moritz, commanded a cavalry division in the army of the Austrian Empire during the Napoleonic Wars
• August Ludwig von Nostitz (1777–1866), Prussian general, fought in the Waterloo Campaign
• Helene von Nostitz [de] (1878–1944), writer and salon Dame
• Georg von Nostitz (Georg Karl von Nostitz-Jänkendorf, 1781—1838), German military officer in Imperial Russian service
• Gustav-Adolf von Nostitz-Wallwitz (1898–1945), general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II
• Nick Nostitz (born 1968), German photographic journalist

Lordships

• 1280: earliest record of the Lords of Nostitz
• 1366: Lordship of the Holy Roman Empire
• 1631: Barony of the Holy Roman Empire
• 1673: purchased the County of Rieneck
• 1692:
  Counts of the Holy Roman Empire

See also

• Nostitz (disambiguation)
• Rieneck

References

Further reading

• Beiträge zur Geschichte des Geschlechts von Nostitz. 2 Hft. Leipzig (1874–76)
• Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels
  , Band 116, 1998, Adelslexikon

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